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Original Screenplays

Selfware

Will and Lena's sex life spins out of control, when their extreme role-playing ends up with him unwittingly cheating on her with his ex, Gwen. The tragically unstable Gwen wedges herself between the couple both literally and figuratively, when her suicide leads to a metaphysical union with Will. Inhabiting Will's body, Gwen's conscious recklessly experiments with exactly how to body-hop. The fractured characters discover how the subconscious holds the key to cognitive transference, but that transplanting a self requires sacrificing one's old body. Suicide is the key to taking the body of your choice!

Parasocial

Hopeless and wounded, Joe makes friends fully anticipating them to be future enemies. He defies family, love and wisdom with one goal in mind: to get on a competition reality program. For Joe, condemning happiness is the only cure to his own confusion and the only way he knows how to prove himself worthy of being a shameless reality personality. Joe struggles to adapt, and grows out of control when building his anti-fairy-tale existence. Ultimately, he does find himself on the precipice of being cast as the worst version of himself, when the girl of his dreams enters his life. She helps him to understand the grave sacrifices he must make when attempting to bare it all to the world.

Dream2Movie

Hollywood crumbles when prequels, sequels and remakes aren't enough for audiences any longer. Originality is a myth, when a new medium of visual entertainment debuts: Dream recording and production. Genevieve, the top dreamer in the country, tries to get out of the business, only to find herself more entrenched in the history of dream-film than she could have ever imagined. Working for the largest dream production company, Mirrem Studios, she finds her waking life manipulated to ensure the quality and consistency of her dreams. Dealing with the jealousy of fellow dreamers, her relationship with Ford, a Romance dreamer for a competing independent dream producer, and the demands of her maniacal editor Corin is just the beginning. Sometimes dreaming for a living can be a nightmare.

The First Dinosaur

In the early nineteenth century, fossil discovery changes the scope of Earth’s history. Ambitious geologist and devoted pastor, William Buckland, discovers the first dinosaur fossil on record. The implications of these “great lizards” having once ruled the Earth rocks Buckland’s foundation of beliefs, while simultaneously granting him new esteem and power. An eccentric character: he enjoys hunting and feasting on as many exotic animals as possible, wearing a scholarly gown as his main attire, and talking endlessly with his friend Cuvier. But after a carriage accident, Buckland finds himself haunted by his momentous find, Megalosaurus, quite literally. Buckland digs up a truth he is not prepared to believe and it ultimately eats him alive.

Adapted Screenplay

Survivor: Winter's Tale

In this adaptation of Shakespeare's Winters Tale, a future incarnation of the popular reality franchise, Survivor, unfolds with twists and turns that only a reality show based on Shakespeare could produce. The hook of the season has competing Survivor tribes headed by winning Survivor couples whom have met because of the show. Survivor: Family pits Boston Rob and Amber vs. Ethan Zohn and Jenna Morasca in an all-out war for domination and prize money. Each couples respective Survivor offspring are incorporated into the game, atop Amber being the first Survivor to play the game pregnant. Rob's unbridled paranoia about Amber's fidelity on the island leads to the demise of the most popular reality series ever... at least for a while.

Original Telescripts

The Insight Co.

In the face of an original thought vacuum, a new storytelling medium arises: dream recording. Everyday people can become celebrities as the top dreamers. The companies that record and edit those dreams grow out-of-control powerful. The Insight Company follows the titular, underdog, dream manufacturer as it tries to compete with the monopolizing DreamView Studios.

The dream companies have dreamers for every genre. They sell their waking states as well, packaging them as“histories”. The Insight Company explores how, when signing on to be a dreamer, the whole mind is forfeited.

End Gen

God has given up on mankind and makes himself mortal to live out the final days of the cosmos. When he forfeits his omniscience and immortality to become man, all of his fellow deities crash to Earth as well. With only one more lifetime of all existence, humanity quickly looks to God as man for answers; however, he wants to be left alone and to have nothing to do with man with the little time he has left. It is up to Ermes, the former Messenger God, to represent God to Mankind. She, new to being mortal herself, secures Herdsmen Media Corp. to disseminate meaning to the whole of mankind with the help of some other iconic Gods that are dealing with their new, temporary reality on Earth.

We Talk Good

Madison is a disgraced speech writer for a losing presidential nominee whom she was found to have had an affair with. Suddenly a pariah in Washington DC, she moves home to Chicago to become a speech coach and teacher at her old high school. Bitter, resentful and still highly sexual, Madison keeps from killing herself by diving head first into the turmoil her speech team and fellow coaches put her through.

Pitch It

Film, television, graphic novel and prose writers are pitted against one another as they try to pitch their concepts to some of the biggest names in the industry. Contestants have the opportunity to pitch their concept in under a minute and bring in essential financial and casting considerations if applicable. Judges will break down the story concepts and give advice on the direction of the work.

In this competition reality show, one writer advances every week, until there are only the elite writers in each genre. In the finale, the varying writers go head to head developing a short trailer/teaser for their intellectual properties. The winner is given the opportunity to produce their work with influential figures in the business.